Chapter 634 – 634. Demon (2)
Demon Karcus.
Because he has low intelligence, he appears first in the original work.
The appearance that makes people feel bad just by looking at it was enough to frown even in the game, but seeing it in real life made it worse.
Its long, thin limbs were attached to its water strider-like body, and whenever it moved, rusty metal made a scratching sound.
That bastard’s fighting method was as simple as his low intelligence.
Incredibly fast speed.
And the power that comes from that speed.
– Devil… ? Human… ? Kreuk… Both are delicious…
Karkus, who was analyzing the creature in front of his eyes, eventually gave up on understanding and stretched out his limbs.
Whether Lee Ho-yeon was a human or a demon was not important to him.
Kkkii Lee Profit-
The fingers on Karkus’ arms disappeared, and they became like the forelimbs of a mantis.
This was the appearance of Karcus when hunting the strong.
Karcus was a demon.
Just because a demon has low intelligence doesn’t mean its combat power is low.
Because he destroyed all the problems caused by his low intelligence with his power, he survived hell.
Geek-
The moment when the unpleasant sound of machinery filled the shore.
Karcus’s body disappeared from Lee Ho-yeon’s sight.
“Oh shit…!”
Aaaaang!
A speed at which the eye cannot see and react.
As soon as the rune’s barrier was broken, a roar hit my ears.
The faster-than-sound attack lightly shattered the rune’s barrier.
Fault-
Lee Ho-yeon, who bounced back his body using magical power, distanced himself from Karkus.
The guy was tilting his head again as he saw himself having survived the first attack.
‘Can a demon exert its power without a black pillar?’
I have already confirmed that there are no black pillars around.
Even so, Karkus was able to use his full power.
‘No. He must have absorbed the magic of hell.’
Lee Ho-yeon observed the mana it was absorbing through his eye opening.
The guy was receiving magic from a nearby place.
The place where Lee Ho-yeon was standing now was the seaside.
And, the ominous darkness covering the sea is the magic of hell coming from the gates of hell.
I don’t know if it’s an ordinary monster.
It was an environment sufficient for a demon-level creature to generate power.
‘Rather than full power Lucifer… It’s definitely weak.’
Lee Ho-yeon just analyzed the guy’s strength based on the attack.
The opponent is the devil, the top predator of hell, but Lucifer was the successor of the devil.
It was incomparable to the power he showed.
However, it did not mean that Karcus was an easier opponent than Lucifer.
Lucifer and the battle were not alone.
Daeun Nam, Scarlett, Irene and Ellis were strong avant-gardes, and Lucy, Rumi, and Imsol supported magic.
There was Baek Ah-young who healed the wounds, and there were Rebecca, Moon Surin, and Liliana who coordinated the battlefield.
Above all, the biggest difference is the other person’s murderous intent.
Lucifer didn’t go all out in the first place to capture himself and Liliana.
In the end, he was able to seriously injure himself by being careless, and took the initiative of the fake dungeon magic circle while the heroines bought time.
However, the Karcus in front of me was different.
– Human… Devil… Strong is delicious…
Karkus, who was drooling, was looking at Lee Ho-yeon with bloodshot eyes.
Karkus does not try to capture himself alive.
What Karcus, a predator, does is hunting.
It doesn’t matter to him whether the prey is alive or dead.
Deed Deed Deed Dede Deuk!
Quaang-!
The foreleg of Karcus, who appeared in front of me, collided with the barrier of the rune.
Even though it was installed thicker than before, the barrier trembled.
“What power… Great!”
Lee Ho-yeon focused her magic on the rune’s barrier.
At the same time, the arc in which her magic was injected rapidly rotated and drew a magic circle.
‘Spiral.’
The spiral containing the magic of the wind spun rapidly and aimed at Karcus’s neck.
Since it was a magic created outside Karkus’s field of vision, he recognized the attack just before the spiral touched the scruff of his neck.
– Kreuk… Far away?
Pasasa Sasak-
Next moment.
Spiral dug up the sand on the beach with terrifying momentum.
Karkus’ neck did not fall, and he was sucking the skull from where he was standing before he knew it.
“…That’s a really stupid bastard.”
There was not a single abrasion on Karkus’ body, and grotesque sounds still emanated from his thin legs.
To be honest, I thought it was an unavoidable attack.
But Karkus dodged the attack as if it were natural.
The speed difference was overwhelming enough to break the fighting spirit.
Even with his one-step evolved open eye, he couldn’t properly track Karcus’ movements.
Opening the eyes is to read the visible mana by concentrating the eyes on the eyes.
Karkus also had magical powers, but his fighting style was not based on his magical powers.
Cad de de de de de de deuk.
Every time his knee was bent and straightened, a strange sound was heard.
Simply put, it was a difference of ‘species’.
The devil who survived hell, Karcus.
He surpassed the laws of physics with pure leg power.
Because Karkus’s speed was not a power using magical power, he could not read it into a dog.
The word monster really suits him.
On the other hand, Lee Ho-yeon is human.
No matter how great he was, he was still human.
– Kreuk. Strong man… Can eat… There is…
The demon Karcus looked at Lee Ho-yeon and thought.
He was convinced after meeting magic a few times.
The prey in front of you is a human.
He is a human strong enough to feel like a demon, but he is slower than himself.
You can never catch yourself at that speed.
This hunt was a success.
“… Crazy bastard. Who’s going to feed you?”
He is in a position where he cannot give up even if he wants to give up.
Pounding. Pounding.
[Combat Sense] Surrounds his body whenever he recognizes the strength of Karcus, and his heart beats faster.
Lee Ho-yeon gritted his teeth and raised his mana again.
Accelerating his thinking, he thought of a way to kill the monster.
Head-to-head? Run out of speed My body will be torn apart before I can even cast my magic.
Simultaneous attacks while giving fakes? The guy runs away the moment the magic touches his neck.
Space movement after opening the rune’s barrier? It was faster for Lee Ho-yeon to physically move than for Lee Ho-yeon to move through space.
No matter how much I thought, I couldn’t come up with an answer.
To make matters worse, Karkus wouldn’t let Lee Ho-yeon carry on his idea.
Paaang-!
Karkus, who approached with imperceptible speed, swung his front legs right in front of his eyes.
The barrier of the rune collided with Karcus’s sharp foreleg could not withstand the impact and was shattered as it was.
‘Acceleration.’
As soon as Lee Ho-yeon realized that the rune’s barrier was breaking, she accelerated her body, bounced back her magical energy, and stepped back.
“… Under.”
But this time I was out of luck.
Pop. Pop.
Blood soaks into the sand on the beach.
Even using ‘acceleration’, I couldn’t avoid his front legs.
Lee Ho-yeon glanced at his tattered right arm and then glared straight ahead.
It only briefly brushes against Karkus’ arm, but his right arm has no strength.
– Kreuk. Krukreuk… It’s good. Strong man… It’s good… !
Karkus was licking his foreleg as if he had forgotten that he was in the middle of a fight.
I laugh at Karkus greedily licking his own blood.
It is a disgraceful thing for a human being to die to a baby bug that has no intelligence and only instinct.
‘The only way to deal with Karkus is the straight attack method.’
Lee Ho-yeon forcibly put the pain in his arm to rest.
Instead, I focused my magic on his eyes.
The opponent is not a guy who can win by playing tricks.
If you want to catch Karcus, you have to read his movements after all.
Gigg. I’m going to have a good time…
The hunter did not leave the injured prey alone.
With a grotesque sound, Karkus, who tasted his blood, rushed even more violently.
Kwaaaaang-!
The sharp front legs struck Rune’s barrier strongly.
The power was transmitted to Lee Ho-yeon’s body as it was, and thanks to his high healing power, his right arm, which had begun to heal, began to spurt blood again.
‘… I need to focus more.’
Lee Ho-yeon mobilized all his concentration and glared at Karcus until the end.
The guy had low intelligence, and the pattern was simple.
He lunges at speed and slams with his arms.
The problem is that it’s so fast you can’t perceive it.
Intervening Benefits-
Karkus bent his knees again.
As he lunges, he focuses all of his body’s energy into his arms.
Kaaaaang-!
A shock that travels faster than sound.
This time, the rune’s barrier couldn’t stand it.
“Keugh…!”
He hurriedly backed away again this time, but his left arm was scraped by Karcus’s leg.
Fortunately, the left arm was slightly scratched, but not as severe as the right arm.
– Human… It’s good…
Kirik. Intervening profit.
The sound of Karkus twisting his joints was like laughing at himself.
It was a hopeless situation, but Lee Ho-yeon did not give up.
‘It’s starting to show little by little.’
Lee Ho-yeon began to reinterpret the phenomena he saw before his eyes.
You can’t read his movements with normal open eyes.
Lee Ho-yeon is watching the world inside his dog.
However, the opened eye only contains magic power, but cannot contain everything in the world.
What he wanted to see, he said, was Karcus’ movement, not magic power.
‘I’m not looking at Karcus. I’m looking at the whole space.’
Swordsmen use their shoulder movements to predict where their opponents will aim.
It’s because it’s already too late to move after seeing the opponent’s sword move.
The higher the level of each other, the more things to see.
In the master’s realm, it becomes an act of giving information to the other person, from the gait to the sound of breathing.
‘It’s the same with wizards. I can take everything as information.’
Rumbling-
Blood flowed from his golden eyes.
However, Lee Ho-yeon did not stop concentrating his magic.
The high healing power will solve this level of pain.
After all, the essence of the battle is the same.
You must accept the other party’s information.
– Kreuk. Krukreuk… ? Human…
Lee Ho-yeon’s eyes shone bright gold.
The stronger the opponent, the more Lee Ho-yeon’s [Combat Sense] Reached his limit.
‘Wizards need to be faster. Throw away the arrogant thought that you can follow the opponent’s movements and match them.’
Lee Ho-yeon was unusual among wizards.
Even if the opponent came close, he was learning a lot of magic to counterattack.
But Karkus was different from the guys he had dealt with so far.
Even if the magician Lee Ho-yeon used ‘Acceleration’, he couldn’t go as fast as Karcus, and ‘Spiral’, which takes effect only when he hits it directly, did not reach him.
‘We have to make it inaccessible from the start. No, we need more than that. I have to catch every movement of the opponent.’
[Combat Sense] Fills the body.
He gave power to his motionless right arm and forcibly opened his pupils with ruptured veins.
That much will come as an aftereffect after the battle, but Lee Ho-yeon did not stop thinking.
Instantly expand your senses.
Block all other information and focus all your attention on Karkus.
The movement of mana in this space predicts the opponent’s next action.
– Krurlukrukreuk… ? Human… Blood…
Karkus did not understand Lee Ho-yeon’s actions.
All he understood was that his prey suddenly began to bleed from its eyes.
Based on his own experience, if the prey bleeds, it means that the hunt was almost successful.
– It’s good… Strong man… Kreuk…
Intercepting Device Geek-
Karkus bent his knees.
And, as he had always done, he charged at his prey.
The scene unfolded in Lee Ho-yeon’s field of view like a slow motion.
Karkus bent his knees and rushed to himself.
It charges faster than sound by simply bending its knees and lunging.
That was Karcus.
Karkus, who confirmed the prey by rolling his pupils, transmitted the speed from his strong legs to his forelimbs.
Its forelimbs, densely lined with sharp spines, are designed to tear apart the body of its prey.
Even brushing against the weak human body is fatal.
Karkus didn’t even give him time to scream.
The front leg approaching at high speed cut Lee Ho-yeon’s chest.
Each of the thorns tore the flesh off the prey and shaped it into a shape that was easy for Karcus to dig into.
I only allowed a proper attack, but Lee Ho-yeon’s mind goes blank.
He immediately regained consciousness and aimed for a counterattack, but Karcus did not miss the prey he had hunted.
He dropped the prey’s neck in an instant and began to eat the prey that was still fresh.
… However, Lee Ho-yeon did not feel any pain.
Lee Ho-yeon looked down at her chest.
He clearly saw his breasts being ripped out, but his own breasts were still intact.
Karkus, looking at himself from the front, was only now bending his knees.
Lee Ho-yeon immediately understood this phenomenon.
What you just saw is not reality.
It was a prediction of the future drawn by her own eyes that interpreted the information in this space.
‘Spiral.’
As soon as he recognized that fact, Hoyeon Lee created a whirlwind of wind in front of her chest without delay.
A magic sphere that rotates in a spiral appears at a distance from the chest that Karcus cut off.
Intercepting Device Geek-
The moment when Karcus jumped in.
He gave up even the barrier of runes and created ‘Spiral’.
A gambler who is close to suicide if he doesn’t perfectly predict his opponent’s moves.
However, Lee Ho-yeon was convinced.
His own predictions are never wrong.
No, this phenomenon is already out of the realm of prediction.
What he had just seen was not a prediction, but the truth.
Mana response and magic control ability that reached the level of a god.
Massive concentration exercised in combat situations.
Overwhelming sense that comes from [Combat Sense].
Lee Ho-yeon’s destructive talent has upgraded a highly accurate prediction to ‘prediction’.
[Future Foresight]
Kwajijijik-
The legs of Karcus, which had dug into the spiral, were ripped off like the legs of a water strider.
